NAPD Leadership Institute Indianapolis 2025: Full Schedule

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8:45am EDT

Monday April 14, 2025 8:45am - 10:00am EDT

NAPD Staff will be at the registration table just outside of the auditorium by 10am EST for you to sign in, pick up your nametag, etc. prior to opening remarks at 12:30 pm EST.

Please make sure you have completed the community guidelines and confidentiality agreement.

Monday April 14, 2025 8:45am - 10:00am EDT
Auditorium

10:00am EDT

Conference Welcome

Monday April 14, 2025 10:00am - 10:15am EDT

Auditorium

Speakers

Diane Black

Training Director, Indiana Public Defender Council, Indianapolis, IN

Diane Black is the Training Director for the Indiana Public Defender Council. As IPDC’s Training Director, Diane is focused on the development and implementation of high quality programming for defenders across the state. This focus includes innovative regional training programs... Read More →

Lori James Townes

Executive Director, National Association for Public Defense

Lori James-Townes is the Executive Director of the National Association of Public Defense. Lori assumed this leadership position after three years of working as Assistant Training Director for NAPD and more than 25 years of working on defense teams representing indigent defendants... Read More →

Monday April 14, 2025 10:00am - 10:15am EDT
Auditorium

Plenary

10:15am EDT

Client Centered Leadership

Monday April 14, 2025 10:15am - 10:45am EDT

Auditorium

Defining Client Centered Representation and Leadership v. other centers
Identifying challenges, dilemmas and paradoxes inherent in Client Centered Representation
3 questions exercise
Why did you first become a public defender?
Why are you still doing it?
What was one of your best days.
Explore the Public Defender Motivational Triad

Speakers

Jeff Sherr

Training Director, National Association for Public Defense

Jeff Sherr is the Training Director for the National Association for Public Defense producing hundreds of webinars for public defense professionals across the nation. Prior to that he was the Manager of the Education and Strategic Planning Branch of the Kentucky Department of Public... Read More →

Monday April 14, 2025 10:15am - 10:45am EDT
Auditorium

Plenary

10:45am EDT

Beyond Leadership to Transformational Leadership

Monday April 14, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT

Auditorium

The Role of Motivation and Inspiration
Key Elements required to increase engagement and performance
The power of modeling
Developing Credibility - Equity Theory
Being Proactive and Communicating Clear Expectations - (Dare to Lead, Brene Brown)

Effective leaders require more than basic skills to motivate their teams, especially when we have to tackle macro issues.
In this session we review and discuss:
- How do we move our staff from good to great; demanding better performance?
- What impact does the ability to inspire and motivate have on others?
- How does it impact engagement? What if you don’t have it and have learned to lead by force?
- Choosing to be Strategically Vulnerable

Speakers

Lori James Townes

Executive Director, National Association for Public Defense

Monday April 14, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Auditorium

Plenary

12:00pm EDT

Lunch on your own

Monday April 14, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT

1:30pm EDT

Leadership Transition: What you need to know to succeed

Monday April 14, 2025 1:30pm - 2:15pm EDT

Auditorium

Taking stock of your position as a leader, idenifying areas for potential change, and setting goals for your office and yourself.

Monday April 14, 2025 1:30pm - 2:15pm EDT
Auditorium

Plenary

2:30pm EDT

Small group

Monday April 14, 2025 2:30pm - 3:15pm EDT

Small Group Breakouts

Map of Conference Center Small Group Rooms
Small group assignments
Case Problem

Monday April 14, 2025 2:30pm - 3:15pm EDT
Small Group Breakouts

Small Group

3:30pm EDT

Reframing Organizations: Four Frames

Monday April 14, 2025 3:30pm - 4:45pm EDT

Auditorium

Detailed analysis of the case problem using the 4 Frames

Discuss each of the Four Frames and how to analyze problems and create solutions using them.
How to use multiple frame thinking.
How to choose which frame to use in analysis and problem-solving.

Speakers

Cathy Bennett

Training Consultant, National Association for Public Defense

Cathleen (Cathy) Bennett recently moved to Anchorage, Alaska from Boston, Massachusetts where she was a public defender with the Committee for Public Counsel Services (the Massachusetts Statewide Public Defender) for 30 years. She was the Criminal Defense Training Director at CPCS... Read More →

Monday April 14, 2025 3:30pm - 4:45pm EDT
Auditorium

Plenary

5:00pm EDT

Facilitators Meeting

Monday April 14, 2025 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

Conference Room A

Monday April 14, 2025 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Conference Room A